Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead. Wipe that smile off your face.

It took us two decades and a trillion dollars to whack this terrorist son-of-a-bitch. What are you celebrating?

Ayman al-Zawahiri met the business end of a US drone in the center of Kabul. Photo by Mohammad Husaini on Unsplash

Adam Garfinkle, Washington DC

Like most people, I learned yesterday that a CIA special op killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in what he thought was a Kabul safe house. But unlike most people, apparently, I was not overjoyed. I was incensed.